Chapter 136 The Ouija Board (13) "I only saw it, merely..."
After reading the comic updates and checking the forum, Xie Tan headed to the old teaching building.
Things were much more serious than he had imagined.
If it's about catching the alternation, the requirement for leaving this day is the birth of a new Ouija board spirit.
The comic portrays him as the culprit, and other characters probably see him that way too, but he knows he isn't. This "S" must be someone else, and it's someone from the Ouija board game these past few days.
That would be even more terrifying. He's actually drawing attention to the mastermind behind the scenes. Who is it?
In the previous stories, comic readers lamented that the ordinary episodic stories no longer posed a threat to the main characters. The main plot must be what determines their life or death, so they hoped that the main plot would turn into an action-packed manga, where they would kill the most evil boss and have a happy ending.
Unfortunately, even the comic book readers themselves don't really believe it. They can only pray that fewer people die and that the deaths aren't too tragic, and they're all quite terrified.
He didn't know what would happen, but... he hoped that Xi Rui really had a backup plan and hadn't become a spirit medium.
Right now, the priority is to prevent others from becoming spirits through the Ouija board.
But when he arrived at the old teaching building, he didn't encounter any living people or hear any noise. He called out a few times, but received no response.
An ominous premonition weighed on his heart. Had they already consulted a spirit medium?
He searched each classroom for the unconscious people, but instead of finding any, he found a bunch of bloodied or grotesque ghosts.
No, these ghosts are more likely to be drawn to him by his scent and deliberately wait for him.
Although it was bloody, human figures could be made out, and Xie Tan guessed that these were the thirteen dead students.
But new confusion has arisen.
The mass suicide case was a closed-off escape, where thirteen people were forced into a survival battle, one replacing another to become the new Ouija board spirit. In the end, only one ghost should remain, which is the boy who died last.
This also aligns with the situation in the new story. Some comic book readers have pointed out that the ghost waving and luring people in the old school building has the same color clothes as the boy at the end.
The peach wood sword was ineffective because the girl had already been freed. The most dramatic part was probably the young couple, where in the end, the boy took the girl's place.
Xie Tan saw the girl's ghost with his own eyes, and then saw other ghosts one after another. If they have all been freed, why are they still here?
Is it just about alternating shifts?
He heard a knock on the door downstairs, hoping it was his two companions calling for help, but when he opened the door, he only saw a pair of feet.
Sigh. He sighed inwardly, muttering, "Ah, another one."
Was that girl who folded her clothes referring to someone who initially hanged themselves? That's it, right?
At the same time, he was grabbed by Sun Enze, who suddenly turned out of the stairwell.
The ghost, who was about to greet him, was interrupted by Sun Enze and became unhappy, so he deliberately scared Sun Enze.
Sun Enze froze, then retreated frantically as if he wanted to go several miles back. But it was less that he was scared by the ghost and more that he was afraid of him.
He stared at him in horror.
Sun Enze struggled to think.
Why is this ghost here?
After scaring them in the dormitory building, they ran back to the old teaching building?
But when the first girl summoned the spirit in the dormitory, she had already become the new spirit and should be in the dormitory building... Oh, right, she later disguised herself as a human and sneaked into the old teaching building. She must have been the first spirit in the mass suicide case, while the others thought it was the original spirit.
If you look closely, the two pairs of feet hanging there are different; one pair is wearing short-heeled leather shoes, and the other pair is wearing white sneakers.
If this is true, what exactly did they see in the dormitory building?
It seems that it was around that time that Sister Xiao Ai was terrified... She learned that the new Ouija board spirit was the club president through the ghost of the hanged man!
He recalled that during a team-building activity, everyone shared their past experiences. The club president and Sister Xiao Ai had encountered a hanged ghost during their high school years and almost lost their lives.
The ghost in the dormitory building is a secret code left by the president of the Ouija board for Xiao Ai!
The real ghost happened to be right in front of Xie Tan. Xie Tan even said "another one," which was none other than Sister Xiao Ai.
Xie Tan knew from the beginning that they didn't intend to go to the old teaching building, and his decision to let them go was once again intentional.
He knew they could come up with the "unspeakable spell" as "how to save you," so the conspiracy was useless, and he switched to an open strategy.
If the Ouija board spirit is the club president, then for Sister Xiao Ai, this spell changes from "cannot be spoken" to "I'm glad I know" and "I will definitely speak."
Sun Enze suddenly realized... that was why Xie Tan had kept him around.
He experienced two alternations with the spirit of the Ouija board, but his mind was in a mess, not completely amnesiac. Moreover, in his anxiety, he would try his best to recall all the details and tell Chang Mingai.
But he couldn't think of anything himself.
Chang Mingai used two alternating references, and the answer to what the incantation was was practically written out in plain sight.
Sun Enze stared blankly, then suddenly broke down.
He crouched down, frantically grabbing his hair, his glasses thrown to the ground, and cried, "So the president... Sister Ai, they've all... What... what are you going to do? Why did you choose us? I can't do anything, I..."
Xie Tan couldn't keep up with these people at all. Before he could even ask Chang Mingai what had happened, Sun Enze suddenly burst into tears as if he had seen the King of Hell. Xie Tan couldn't even get a word in edgewise.
Suddenly, he heard giggling.
He frowned instinctively.
It's not a mirror god.
It's much more annoying than the voice of the Mirror God.
Right in his ear, with ill intent.
It made only one or two sounds, and then seemed to disappear again.
Unsure if Sun Enze had heard him, he walked up to him, put his arm around his shoulder, and when Sun Enze suddenly froze and looked up, he put his index finger to his lips to quiet him down.
Sun Enze held his breath for a moment, but became even more frightened, his pupils involuntarily contracting.
He knew that the person in front of him was losing patience.
Sun Enze was silent for a moment, then suddenly whispered, "I'm not worthy to negotiate with you, but please, I'm begging you, have mercy on him, please let him go..."
Xie Tan was at his wit's end and told him to shut up.
He thought he heard that laughter again.
To prevent Sun Enze from continuing to indulge in his own script, Xie Tan nodded, deciding to appease him first.
There was something here that made him very uncomfortable.
Having received the promise, Sun Enze felt all his strength drain away and collapsed to the ground, but instead revealed a smile: "You saved my life in the first place, and it's great that it can still be of use to you when I die... Let's go and consult the Ouija board."
Xie Tan: ?
What nonsense are you talking about, you silly child?
I don't know about the others, but how many people have been killed by the Ouija board? Xie Tan: "No way."
Sun Enze was stunned and panicked, but Xie Tan remained cold and unyielding, only telling him to follow.
The laughter stopped. Xie Tan had no choice but to remain still, unable to find the source.
Stop playing with the Ouija board. Just follow him around. Anyway, following him will only lead to more ghost encounters. But given Sun Enze's current condition, encountering ghosts is much better than watching his companions disappear before his eyes.
Sun Enze followed in a daze, tears welling up as if blocking his mind, filled with a cacophony of sounds.
He was both afraid of the figure in front of him and afraid that the figure would disappear. Completely lost and directionless, Chang Mingai's words inexplicably resurfaced in his mind.
But not the one that made him treat Xie Tan as an enemy.
Perhaps facing imminent death, Sun Enze found a bit of courage to try to understand this person, and said, "I once thought, in a rebellious way, that we... seem somewhat alike, was it when you told me what death is?"
His voice was utterly bewildered: "When those guys bullied me, you were the most indifferent of them all, yet you were the only one who truly saved me. I thought, it wasn't just cold indifference; perhaps you saw right through me. My suffering was nothing to be surprised about in your eyes... You must have suffered much more than I have, right?"
So, having gone this far, you've paid a price he doesn't know and probably can't understand. What kind of ending do you ultimately want?
Xie Tan's first thought was about the original world.
But soon he realized he couldn't answer like that. According to the character's setting in the comic book world, the so-called "pain" came from Xiao Liu's death and the side effects of the Eye of Observation.
So he put himself in Xiao Liu's shoes and asked, "What is the eye of observation like?"
If it were her, how would she respond if someone told her, "You must be in a lot of pain"?
“No, everything has its pain,” Xie Tan said. “I just saw it, that’s all.”
Sun Enze was stunned.
Suddenly, he heard someone laughing.
He immediately looked at Xie Tan, but Xie Tan did not react.
Only he can hear it?
No, if it were Xie Tan, he might have heard it but didn't care...
In the blink of an eye, he lost track of them.
Xie Tan has disappeared.
Sun Enze looked up and saw the first floor!
Aren't they going up to the third floor?
He immediately realized that Xie Tan hadn't disappeared; he had simply suddenly appeared on the first floor.
A Joker card was in his palm. The Joker's pinpoint eyes trembled violently, as if in fear, but his blood-red mouth stretched to his ears as he laughed loudly, "So it was you."
That's Sister Xiao Ai's voice!
It's that thing inside Chang Mingai's body!
"...What? What am I? I don't understand!"
"Oh dear, we can't back down now. Did you lie to him just now? I won't allow it. That child saved you, shouldn't you repay the favor?" The mouth smiled, but the voice was cold and oppressive. "Let's go, let's go ask the spirit of the Ouija board."
Sun Enze... understands a little better.
This guy is very likely in cahoots with Xie Tan.
So Xie Tan induced Chang Ming to use the Ouija board in order to release this ghostly thing?
“I don’t believe him. He said it wouldn’t work.” Sun Enze resisted.
But deep down, I seem to long for it all to end sooner.
“That’s because there wasn’t enough time today, and he was too lazy to bother. Didn’t you notice it’s almost midnight? The day is almost over,” said the mouth on the Joker card. “So I stole this useful tool! I don’t know what he originally intended to use it for, but I think now is the perfect time.”
After saying that, disregarding Sun Enze and the clown's wishes, they arrived in front of the club building in the blink of an eye.
Sun Enze was stunned when he saw where it was.
Clubhouse building? But aren't clubhouse buildings supposed to be free of ghosts?
Seemingly knowing what he was thinking, "Chang Mingai" walked out of the club building and said with a smile, "Her original intention in building this little building was for you to have fun. Naturally, she didn't want ghosts and monsters to enter. But, there really is a magic circle here that can be formed, or rather, a ritual? That's where we need you."
“Come on, child,” the mouth said with a grin.
"Ouija board spirit... Ouija board spirit, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you wish to continue our bond, please draw a circle on the paper."
Sun Enze finished reading it, his voice trembling.
The pen began to move subtly.
Sun Enze let out a silent breath, feeling somewhat relieved. He said, "Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, how can I save you?"
The hand that was clasped with his changed, gradually darkening... until it became a terrifying arm like charcoal.
How could this possibly be Chang Mingai's hand?
Sun Enze looked up abruptly. It was a distorted human figure that had been burned to a crisp. Every part of it was burned and charred beyond recognition, except for its mouth, which was as red as blood.
Xie Tan turned around.
The corridor was empty; no one was there.
The strange laughter rang in his ears again.
"The refining is complete, and the ceremony is halfway done. Quick, say thank you, Uncle!"
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